<style><!-- #splasharea { background-image: url(); background-repeat: no-repeat; height: 550px; background-color: #ffffff; } .splashtext { width: 100%; float: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 20px; } .splashtext2 { width: 80%; float: left; margin-left: 180px; margin-top: 20px; } .splashtext h2 { color: #008CCE!important; font-size: 22px!important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 10px; } .splashtext h1 { color: #008CCE!important; font-size: 45px!important; font-weight: bold!important; margin-top: -5px; margin-bottom: 0px; } .splashtext p { color: #444444!important; font-size: 14px!important; line-height: 1.4em!important; } { p color: #444444!important; font-size: 18px!important; line-height: 1.5em!important; } #splasharea img { float: left; } --></style><div id="splasharea"><div><iframe width="740" height="400" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XCcdunn-oBU" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div class="splashtext"><h1>Reboot the Earth</h1><h2>is planned as a social coding event that brings young computer programmers, scientists and other interested people together under the auspices of the United Nations to improve upon or build a new software program that addresses the current climate crisis.</h2><h2>Through a series of Tech Challenge in four continents, young people, including students will be presented with the opportunity to use open data and tech concepts to solve a local climate crisis that may be unique to each location and its community needs.</h2></div></div><table width="100%" style="padding:10px;vertical-align:top;width:100%;float:left"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center;padding:10px"><a href="https://ideas.unite.un.org/rtegermany/Page/Home"><img src="/images//static/files/944/Germany_01__1568309815673.jpg" width="300" height="422" /></a></td><td style="text-align:center;padding:10px"><a href="https://ideas.unite.un.org/rtegermany2/Page/Home"><img src="/images//static/files/944/Germany_02__1568309834567.png" width="300" height="422" /></a></td><td style="text-align:center;padding:10px"><a href="https://ideas.unite.un.org/rteegypt/"><img src="/images//static/files/944/EGYPT__1566418956678.png" width="300" height="422" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><p style="padding:20px"><span style="font-size:19px"><strong><a href="https://ideas.unite.un.org/rtegermany/Page/Home">Engaging Civil Society Participation in Climate Adaptation</a> Challenge</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:16px">Climate change is an imminent and global threat. Around the world, populations and countries are already experiencing its devastating effects</span>.</p></td><td style="vertical-align:top"><p style="padding:20px"><span style="font-size:19px"><strong><a href="https://ideas.unite.un.org/rtegermany2/Page/Home">Tackling Climate Change with Community Data</a> Challenge</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:16px">The climate is changing throughout the world. As the climate changes so do mankind's living conditions</span>.</p></td><td style="padding:10px;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><span style="font-size:19px"><strong><a href="https://ideas.unite.un.org/rteegypt/">Climate Change and Agriculture</a> Challenge</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:16px">Farmers in Egypt face many challenges including managing their agricultural lands under climate change, conditions.</span></td></tr><tr style="background-color:#ffffff"><td width="30%" style="text-align:center;padding:10px"><a href="https://ideas.unite.un.org/rteegypt2/"><img src="/images//static/files/944/EGYPT2__1566418966769.png" width="300" height="422" /></a></td><td width="30%" style="text-align:center;padding:10px"><a href="https://ideas.unite.un.org/rtemalaysia1/Page/Home"><img src="/images//static/files/944/MALAYSIA__1565901325638.png" width="300" height="422" alt="RTE MALAYSIA1" /></a></td><td width="30%" style="text-align:center;padding:10px"><a href="https://ideas.unite.un.org/rtemalaysia2/Page/Home"><img src="/images//static/files/944/MALAYSIA2__1565901332620.png" width="300" height="422" alt="RTE MALAYSIA2" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><p style="padding:20px"><span style="font-size:19px"><strong><a href="https://ideas.unite.un.org/rteegypt2">Plastic Tracking Systems and Digital Plastic Banks</a> Challenge</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:16px">Plastic waste is a problem everywhere around the world and Egypt is on the verge of banning single-use plastic bags.</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:top"><p style="padding:20px"><span style="font-size:16px"><strong><a href="https://ideas.unite.un.org/rtemalaysia1/Page/Home" title="#OpenCI Platform"><span style="font-size:19px">Conservation of Biodiversity for Climate Change</span></a><span style="font-size:19px"> Challenge</span></strong> </span><br /><span style="font-size:16px">To help addressing the problem, the UN is supporting a “Decade of Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030”, with the aim to reverse degradation of biodiversity and restore 350 hectares of green land worldwide.</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:top"><p style="padding:20px"><span style="font-size:16px"><strong><a href="https://ideas.unite.un.org/rtemalaysia2/Page/Home" title="#OpenCI Platform"><span style="font-size:19px">Sustainable Energy Usage from Farm to Feed and its Impact on Climate</span></a><span style="font-size:19px"> Challenge</span></strong> </span><br /><span style="font-size:16px">Within the agricultural realm, the circular economy approach suggests that the industry can achieve greater sustainability simply by keeping more resources and materials in use for as long as possible.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><p style="padding:20px"><span style="font-size:16px"><strong><span style="font-size:19px"><a href="https://ideas.unite.un.org/rteindia/Page/Home"><img src="/images//static/files/944/INDIA__1565901340512.png" width="300" height="422" alt="RTE INDIA" /></a></span></strong></span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:top"><p style="padding:20px"><span style="font-size:16px"><strong><span style="font-size:19px"> </span></strong></span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:top"><p style="padding:20px"><span style="font-size:19px"><strong> </strong></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align:top"><p style="padding:20px"><span style="font-size:16px"><strong><span style="font-size:19px"><a href="https://ideas.unite.un.org/rteindia/Page/Home">Women + Climate</a> Challenge<br /></span></strong>Climate action champions in industry, government, NGOs and academia are working to foster women as climate action leaders. There is a growing recognition that by enhancing educational opportunities for young women and girls to gain STEAM skills</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:top"><p style="padding:20px"><span style="font-size:16px"><strong><span style="font-size:19px"> </span></strong></span></p></td><td style="vertical-align:top"><p style="padding:20px"><span style="font-size:19px"><strong> </strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width:100%;float:left" cellspacing="20"><tbody><tr><td style="width:154px"><img src="/images//static/files/944/Screen_Shot_2019-08-15_at_4.45.23_PM__1565902260689.png" width="180" height="180" alt="Award" /></td><td style="width:529px"><p style="font-size:16px;text-align:left">Representatives from the winning teams from all the challenge locations will win a trip to New York City, USA at Reboot the Earth Award Ceremony on September 21, 2019, at the United Nations Climate Action Summit 2019.</p><p style="font-size:16px;text-align:left">The winning solution has an opportunity to be incubated in one of the global UN Technology Innovation Labs.</p><p style="font-size:16px;text-align:left">Final solutions will stand a chance to be showcased at Davos in January 2020 during the week of the World Economic Forum.</p></td></tr></tbody></table>